I got in the car tonight to drive home from work; not a particularly rough day, but not the best, and I actually started crying when a temporary set of traffic lights was on my journey home. Can’t say I was crying at the lights, but felt down most of the day. What am I really 😩

There are that many staff off today, I had to teach a merged class of 60 year nine pupils… 60! I’m mentally and physically drained. 😩😂🎭👨🏻‍🏫

Could you imagine what arts based subject specialists, such as my good self, would get? I’d be out in a heartbeat.

Absolutely love this.

After a really shitty time with personal issues this last week or so, today I managed to bag the school I work in an SMSC Quality Mark Gold Award. Three years worth of work and what was my first TLR role in education, I’m buzzing to say the least. ✊🏼✨❤️

I hope that this is true. Part of the reason I went into teaching was to help students similar to myself; who each faced the same or similar things.

This man.

Tomorrow we’re striking as a last resort. A chronic shortage of #teachers caused by poor pay & conditions. Absences mean colleagues are left with additional cover & covering outside of their subjects. Less time to plan & heavy workload. More here👇🏻#SaveOurSchools #TeacherStrike

Today I took strike action, and I’ll do it again, and again until the message hits home. It’s a sad fact of the profession, particularly the workload, that I actually thought about turning on my laptop and getting on with some admin tasks, simply to keep up. #schoolstrikes #neu

Absolutely shocking, but doesn’t surprise me. What a joke!

Going from Sunday to a Monday morning at work…

So true! 🧡

This half term is always a mad one. The school musical, the performance exam for the GCSE kids, and to add into the mix this year; a new set of trial examinations and a couple of strike days. It’s go go go!

Life of Pi on Broadway 🔥 🌊

Little Shop of Horrors 2023 was something else. My first fully directed, and choreographed show as Head of Drama. The kids were unreal ❤️🌱🔪🎭✨

No way!! So sad.. literally feels like yesterday I was dancing to their S Club party at my year six disco. ✊🏼✨❤️

Standardisation time… here’s hoping I don’t have some moment of anagnorisis whereby I discover I’ve taught all my kids the wrong things across their time on the course; a little like when Grantley from Waterloo Road taught the wrong text on an English spec. Happy days!

Can’t believe in a room containing Nigel Farage and Jamie Lynn spears the most annoying and insufferable person is Nella Rose. #ImACeleb

I can’t get over this, Nella had SO much potential to be the greatest winner ever of I’m a celebrity and she’s ruined it in 30 seconds 😭 #ImACeleb